Screw Chip Kelly. I can't dodge the feeling that he'll be a colossal failure, and this whole attempt to leverage teams against one another to milk every last dollar out of them doesn't make me feel any better about him.

Too bad the other candidates are so ridiculously underwhelming. Maybe Marrone is a good choice? But he's 25-25...I'm just so freaking sick of this changing coaches crap.

---"It was great training being there. They do it with character and intelligence. They run that organization the right way. They build through the draft. They're patient. It's just the right way to do it. It was a tremendous opportunity to be with them." Jimmy Haslam on why he'd model the Browns after the Steelers, 10/16/12

May I recommend spending time and money on watching Indycar and Formula 1 next year gentleman?

This next year is going to be a trainwreck.

Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.

48 hours ago Kelly was Paul Brown reincarnate and an innovative wizard. Now he's a dick and thanking God he's going elsewhere because he's schizo or some shit.

And people that didn't want any single part of Kelly to begin with are now criticizing the regime for not hiring him after criticizing the search and the sham interviewing process that was apparently designed to hand him the job with no other candidates being seriously considered.

Marrone off the table. Chip can now use this as a means of getting Jimmy to add onto that contract.

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

48 hours ago Kelly was Paul Brown reincarnate and an innovative wizard. Now he's a dick and thanking God he's going elsewhere because he's schizo or some shit.

And people that didn't want any single part of Kelly to begin with are now criticizing the regime for not hiring him after criticizing the search and the sham interviewing process that was apparently designed to hand him the job with no other candidates being seriously considered.

I love these boards. Really, I do.

Thinkin' the same thing.

One for the archives.

"Chip is the next big mind!!!""Wait a minute, F that dummy in his ear, his career is in shambles."

48 hours ago Kelly was Paul Brown reincarnate and an innovative wizard. Now he's a dick and thanking God he's going elsewhere because he's schizo or some shit.

And people that didn't want any single part of Kelly to begin with are now criticizing the regime for not hiring him after criticizing the search and the sham interviewing process that was apparently designed to hand him the job with no other candidates being seriously considered.

I love these boards. Really, I do.

Thinkin' the same thing.

One for the archives.

"Chip is the next big mind!!!""Wait a minute, F that dummy in his ear, his career is in shambles."

motherscratcher wrote:I'd like it stated for the record that I have been consistent in my irrational idiocy throughout, and I continue to be. I still want Kelly, and I'm going to be pissed when we don't land him.

Duly noted.

As an aside, friend of a friend has a boat named 'Duly Noted'. It's always been his way of saying "fuck you" when i's not appropriate to say.

motherscratcher wrote:I'd like it stated for the record that I have been consistent in my irrational idiocy throughout, and I continue to be. I still want Kelly, and I'm going to be pissed when we don't land him.

Duly noted.

As an aside, friend of a friend has a boat named 'Duly Noted'. It's always been his way of saying "fuck you" when i's not appropriate to say.

It’s unclear whether Kelly’s agent, David Dunn, has managed to set up a tug-o-war between the boyhood friends who are pursuing the same coach. Browns CEO Joe Banner and Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie grew up together and then worked as colleagues for a generation in Philly.

As we pointed out last night on Twitter (Rick Reilly may have been first, though), a sense was percolating through league circles that Dunn had done with Kelly what agent Bob LaMonte had done with Andy Reid, feeding to a willing and aggressive media member or two the idea that Kelly was close to a deal with the Browns in order to increase the sense of urgency for any other interested teams.

motherscratcher wrote:I'd like it stated for the record that I have been consistent in my irrational idiocy throughout, and I continue to be. I still want Kelly, and I'm going to be pissed when we don't land him.

Time to get pissed. Eagles now lead for the master innovator. ESPN says Jimmy likes the Whis from Arizona. Well at least he is familiar with working without a legit QB.

motherscratcher wrote:I'd like it stated for the record that I have been consistent in my irrational idiocy throughout, and I continue to be. I still want Kelly, and I'm going to be pissed when we don't land him.

motherscratcher wrote:I'd like it stated for the record that I have been consistent in my irrational idiocy throughout, and I continue to be. I still want Kelly, and I'm going to be pissed when we don't land him.

Time to get pissed. Eagles now lead for the master innovator. ESPN says Jimmy likes the Whis from Arizona. Well at least he is familiar with working without a legit QB.

Disheartened; disappointed; not pissed. Shrugging. Not a lot of hope here. Would feel better with Heckert still on board...

Do we know who the GM would be with Whisenhunt?

ALSO: about Banner telling McCoy he'd have a place with the next regime: was that substantiated? How could Banner be doing that before the new regime is in place?

Cleveland Transplant wrote:The groundwork is already being laid to soften the blow:

Jeff McLane ‏@Jeff_McLaneDon't rule out Chip Kelly staying at Oregon. In fact, I'd say, after sniffing around more, there's just as much a chance he stays than goes. Retweeted by Mary Kay Cabot

Mary Kay Cabot ‏@MaryKayCabotNFLN's Mike Lombardi, a #Browns GM candidate and friend of Chip Kelly's, speculated on air few times this a.m. that Chip might stay @ Oregon

Good to see MKC's due dillegence searching Twitter feeds rather than putting in the time and effort in herself.

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

I'm disappointed that no one here has said the old, "good luck w/ the Philly Chip!" yet. No mentions of booing Santa either

Slow weekend

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

When your only involvement with the thread is to take a shit on HasBan, it is appropriate to mock them for both misidentifying the Shiny Object they were going all in for and then failing to land the guy they misidentified.

Double fail.

If I were to attempt some objectivity, I'd say they should now wait around and interview guys like Arians and Mike McCoy, but I don't really care what they do.

Eight years ago, we ran Arians out of town on a rail. Last year, Pittsburgh ran him out of town on a rail. He has one good year with Luck under center and #ChuckStrong in the background and now everyone thinks he's The Guy. Fuck me.

"The fucking Who...... If I want to watch old people run around ill go set fire to a nursing home." - CDT

Madre Hill, Superstar wrote:Eight years ago, we ran Arians out of town on a rail. Last year, Pittsburgh ran him out of town on a rail. He has one good year with Luck under center and #ChuckStrong in the background and now everyone thinks he's The Guy. Fuck me.

The Problem with Arians always was not being able to score enough points. Look at the talent P-burgh had plus the QB. There's no excuse for that team not scoring 30+ points a week. That's why he was fired.

Madre Hill, Superstar wrote:Eight years ago, we ran Arians out of town on a rail. Last year, Pittsburgh ran him out of town on a rail. He has one good year with Luck under center and #ChuckStrong in the background and now everyone thinks he's The Guy. Fuck me.

Agree with this as it pertains to Arians.

McCoy I'd be fine with. Arians is the 35yr old mediocre MLB player who has a big free agent year and someone is dumb enough to sign him to multiple years for big dollars.

At least McCoy has an upside and over the past few years he's actually run an offense in whick Orton, Tebow and Manning have all been successful.

I hope everyone is monitoring their email. The Browns have probably moved to the stage on their list where they're just going to start PMing fans to interview for the job. Imagine the buzz that would be generated by hiring, say, Soul Dawg. Wow.

---"It was great training being there. They do it with character and intelligence. They run that organization the right way. They build through the draft. They're patient. It's just the right way to do it. It was a tremendous opportunity to be with them." Jimmy Haslam on why he'd model the Browns after the Steelers, 10/16/12

rbm0183 wrote:I hope everyone is monitoring their email. The Browns have probably moved to the stage on their list where they're just going to start PMing fans to interview for the job. Imagine the buzz that would be generated by hiring, say, Soul Dawg. Wow.

I've already informed the team through back channels than I'm not interested at this time.

I am far from sold on Chip Kelly's chances at the pro level, but was hoping they'd land him. I just don't see any other viable candidates. I'd bring in Josh McDaniels and ask him what he learned in Denver. Wednesday morning beg Saban.

Galley Boys are slop on top of a so-so burger and a bun you coulde get from a Covneninet food mart generic pack. They the Antoine Joubert of burgers; soft, sloppy, oozing grease and cheap sauce and extremely overrated by a biased fan base. Proof that if you throw enough cheap sauce shit on a burger you still can't overcome the lame burger. -JB

I didn't think it would come to this because of the whole NCAA investigation thing....but you could make a case it'd be wise to wait a year - cause next year there will be jobs available with team holding much better QB's. And I know Romo and Newton have their respective issues, but I'd rather work from square one with those guys than Foles, Weedman or Brady Quinn.

Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.